You're missing your doctors' genius; Your response will be. I'll prove this idiot doctor wrong and recover! This way your doesn't even have to prove how incompetent they are in not having recovery protocols. Your fucking doctor is a genius, not having to do anything and still get paid!
This doctor knows precisely how to use the nocebo effect to their benefit. No point in asking your doctor how to recover when it is fucking obvious that s/he is brilliantly stupid about stroke recovery!
'I suffered a stroke and was told I would never be the same again'
Less than a year after he suffered a stroke, Warren Smart is set to take on a 50 mile cycle ride
A man who suffered a stroke that left part of his body paralysed has now set his eyes on completing a 50mile ride to raise money for charity. Warren Smart suffered a stroke in September last year, and was told he would never be able to make a 100% recovery.
In less than an year, the determined 58 year old from Three Crosses will be competing in the annual Jiffy’s Cancer 50 Challenge. The ride would include Warren cycling 50 miles from the Cardiff City Stadium to the Lighthouse restaurant in Swansea’s Bracelet Bay on August 17.
“The consultant said I would never make a 100% recovery. He said, 'You will recover, but you will never be the same again',” Warren said.
His illness that started from a vertigo, quickly turned into something more sinister. Never miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here
He said the first sign something was wrong was when he felt like he had vertigo. His blood perssure was high and doctors said he had suffered a stroke. Soon afterwards, his symptoms worsened in what doctors called a "decompensation event".
"I was more or less paralysed down my right side. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t feed myself. I couldn’t move my right arm or leg at all," he said.
Shocked Warren said doctors thought a blood clot blood clot may have been dislodged and gone into the brain after he lifted a heavy object with his son.
It took three months of recovery at Singleton Hospital’s Neuro Outpatient Physiotherapy department before Warren was able to walk properly again.
“I had to be taught how to walk again. I used to stand on the side of my right foot and swing it in front of me,” he said. “I couldn’t go very far. I couldn’t go up the slightest of hills. I couldn’t walk on a pavement with a camber on it.
He now goes to the gym, swims in the sea and does yoga. He has also given up alcohol, caffeine and salt to reduce the chances of it happening again.
Now, he is determined to take one on the Jiffy’s Cancer 50 Challenge.
"I know I can do it but I don’t know how long it will take me to do it," he said. “I don’t know yet if I will be able to ride up the hill near Culverhouse Cross because it’s a steep hill. If I can ride up it, great. If I can’t, I will push the bike up and ride the rest of it.”
Completing the challenge also holds a personal reason for Warren.
“It’s for a fantastic cause, close to my heart, as my father-in-law had prostate cancer,” he explained. “These days, because of the funding for research and cancer services, people live with cancer. He lived with it for 26 years.”
He urges people who have had a stroke not to give up.
Now heading for the challenge, Warren has words of advice for others who might have had a stroke.
“If you think about it, it is just a blood clot in your brain. Your legs and arms are the same – nothing there has changed," he said. The more you do the better. They had to tell me to take it easy as I tend to push myself as much as I can.”
Sally Jones, Physiotherapy Clinical Lead for Neurology, said: “The neuro outpatient physiotherapy team are delighted to have contributed so positively to Warren's stroke rehabilitation and his story highlights the importance of access to therapy support on discharge from hospital.
“His story really illustrates what can be gained with continued efforts and what an achievement - an inspiration that we can all take note of."
I'd be immediately inspired to get such an incompetent? doctor fired!
"I was more or less paralysed down my right side. I couldn’t walk. I couldn’t feed myself. I couldn’t move my right arm or leg at all," he said.
Shocked Warren said doctors thought a blood clot blood clot may have been dislodged and gone into the brain after he lifted a heavy object with his son.
It took three months of recovery at Singleton Hospital’s Neuro Outpatient Physiotherapy department before Warren was able to walk properly again.
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